Back at her apartment a little later Galen found Anissa in the bedroom while Jason carried a load of boxes out to the truck. She held up her Tarot deck, the Hierophant card on top. "Now do you believe the cards can tell us things?"

He tipped his head and grinned. "I don't know. Didn't you say that one is the teacher and it's supposed to represent me?"

She nodded. "Why, what's wrong with that?"

He took the cards from her hands and set them carefully aside, then pulled her ...